How to allocate memory and get the physical address in kernel

[anish singh]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:26 PM, m silverstri
<michael.j.silverstri at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am developing a kernel driver. I need to allocate buffer in the
> kernel driver and pass the physical address of the buffer to the Chip
> register so that it can generate output there.
Can you elaborate more here?
>
> I tried using kmalloc() but I don' get any output from the chip.
How is kmalloc related to output of the chip?
>
> Is there a better way to achieve what I want?
You are not clear what you want to achieve.Best is to post
your code here so people here knows what you want to achieve.
>
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